CHAPTER IX. Things needed in beginning work--Books, periodicals, and tools The books and other things included in the following list--except those starred or excepted in a special note, the purchase of which can perhaps be deferred until the library contains a few thousand volumes--are essential to good work, and should be purchased, some of them as soon as a library is definitely decided upon, the others as soon as books are purchased and work is actually begun. I.BOOKS *American catalog of books in print from 1876-1896, 5v.
with annual supplement.
The Publishers' weekly, N.Y.Several of the volumes are out of print.
All are expensive.
They are not needed by the very small library.